What The Health with Emily Casey HealthGPT and What Happens Now AI Is Table Stakes
With Janice Tan
About Simon Kos
Simon Kos is global chief medical officer at Heidi Health, the Melbourne-based company that makes AI clinical documentation tools, and a co-founder of Lumyra AI, which advises business and government leaders on adopting AI. A doctor who practised mainly in critical care, he was previously global chief medical officer of Microsoft in Seattle, a physician executive at Cerner and chief executive of Next Practice. He holds an MBBS and BSc(Med) from UNSW and an MBA from AGSM, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. On What The Health, Kos discussed HealthGPT and what changes now that AI is table stakes in healthcare.
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What The Health with Emily Casey Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from HealthGPT and What Happens Now AI Is Table Stakes.
- 0:00Introducing the What the Health Wrap
- 0:07Guest updates: Heidi's global expansion and life in general practice
- 3:03The fortnight's five biggest headlines
- 5:11Heidi's Pressure Points report: adopting AI ahead of governance
- 6:16Busting the myths about clinicians and technology
- 10:11Where general practice is heading: voice by default and deeper consults
- 13:00Patients are bringing their own AI to the consult
- 14:21Health in ChatGPT and big tech's move into consumer health
- 18:33Consumer-grade versus clinical-grade care and the regulation gap
- 23:41Bupa's shift from health insurer to health company
The path so far.
- Now
Global Chief Medical Officer · Heidi Health
- From 2010
Chief Medical Officer (previously Health Industry Manager) · Microsoft
- Earlier · Startup
Co-founder · Lumyra AI
Sources: news.microsoft.com
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